Tennis

MOSCOW: World number 10 Belinda Bencic booked her place at the season-ending WTA Finals in Shenzhen with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Kristina Mladenovic in the Kremlin Cup semi-finals on Saturday. The 22-year-old Swiss needed to reach the final and outperform Kiki Bertens, who lost to Mladenovic in the quarter-finals, to secure her berth in the singles at Shenzhen. She ...

MADRID: Rafael Nadal married his partner of 14 years, Xisca Perello, at a castle in Mallorca on Saturday. Nadal, the 19-time grand slam champion, tied the knot with 31-year-old Perello at La Fortaleza, with a reported 350 guests invited to a private ceremony. Juan Carlos I, the king of Spain from 1975 to 2014, was believed to be among those ...

PARIS- Roger Federer announced Monday he will compete at next year’s Tokyo Olympics in a bid to win the men’s singles gold medal, the only major prize he has yet to obtain. “I’ve been debating with my team for a few weeks now, months actually, what I should do in the summer time (of 2020) after Wimbledon and before the ...

Daniil Medvedev won his fourth title of a spectacular year with a thumping 6-4, 6-1 victory over Alexander Zverev in the Shanghai Masters final on Sunday. Victory for the 23-year-old Russian, contesting a sixth final in a row, was more evidence that he is the prime contender to join the “Big Three” of Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. ...

Teenage prodigy Coco Gauff won her first WTA title on Sunday following a 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 win over Jelena Ostapenko in the final in Linz that saw her hold her first trophy aloft aged 15. Gauff, who only entered the field as a lucky loser after failing to qualify, completed a dream week in Linz in front of a supportive ...

LAHORE : Director General Sports Punjab Adnan Arshad Aulakh has said that Sports Board Punjab will continue to provide sufficient opportunities to young talented players with the collaboration of sports associations; he said this while addressing the prize distribution ceremony of PLTA JTI Junior Tennis Championship 2019 at Punjab Lawn Tennis Academy, Bagh-e-Jinnah on Saturday. Director Sports Shahid Nizami, Secretary ...

LAHORE : Director General Sports Punjab Adnan Arshad Aulakh will grace the closing ceremony of PLTA JTI Junior Tennis Championship 2019 as chief guest at Punjab Lawn Tennis Academy, Bagh-e-Jinnah on October 12, 2019. Director General Sports Punjab Adnan Arshad Aulakh will also distribute medals and certificates among the prominent male and female performers of different age group categories at ...

Saudi Arabia is to stage its first-ever international tennis tournament in a “watershed moment for the Kingdom”, the country´s top sports official said on Tuesday. Swiss three-time Grand Slam winner Stanislas Wawrinka and rising star Daniil Medvedev are two big names already signed up to appear in the eight-player December 12-14 hardcourt event. “Hosting world class international tennis in Saudi ...

Former world number one Andy Murray climbed over 200 places in the new ATP rankings released on Monday while Novak Djokovic extended his lead over Rafael Nadal at the top. Scotsman Murray, who is on the comeback trail after career-saving hip surgery, reached the quarter-finals of the China Open where he lost to eventual winner Dominic Thiem. The run lifted ...

Naomi Osaka´s win over world number one Ashleigh Barty in Beijing at the weekend lifted the Japanese player back into the top three in the new WTA rankings released on Monday. It meant back-to-back WTA Tour titles for the 21-year-old, who won the Australian Open in January, but then failed to match those high standards at the next three Grand ...